Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

12.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

14.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

16.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

17.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

18.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

20.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

21.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

22.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

23.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

24.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

25.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

26.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

27.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

28.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

29.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

31.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

32.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

34.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

36.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

37.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

40.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

42.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

43.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

44.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

47.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

48.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

49.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

50.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl